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Vocabulary
Bill of Rights
Other Amendments
Struggle for Rights
Review
100
This is a sum of money used as a deposit to ensure that an accused person returns for trial.
What is bail?
100
This amendment guarantees you the right to criticize the government to your friends.
What is the 1st Amendment?
100
The 19th amendment gave this group of people the right to vote.
What are women?
100
The 24th amendment outlawed these fees for voting.
What are poll taxes?
100
The United States' first written law of the land.
Articles of Confederation
200
This term means "the right to vote".
What is suffrage?
200
This amendment forbids the police from entering your home without a search warrant.
What is the 4th Amendment?
200
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
200
It took the 15th amendment to give African Americans this basic right.
What is suffrage?
200
This branch of government makes the laws.
What is the Legislative Branch?
300
This word means printed lies about someone, causing harm.
What is libel?
300
This amendment states that you cannot be forced to self-incriminate yourself.
What is the 5th Amendment?
300
Due to the Vietnam War, the 26th Amendment lowered the voting age to this.
What is 18 years old?
300
Brown v. Board of Education eliminated this in public schools.
What is segregation?
300
The President is in which branch of Government?
Executive Branch
400
This refers to the government's right to take your land away, as long as you are compensated.
What is eminent domain?
400
The 9th amendment states that those rights not listed in the Constitution are retained by _______________.
What are the people?
400
These 3 amendments are known as the "Civil War" amendments, because they all pertain to freedman's rights.
What is the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments?
400
A police officer pulling someone over strictly because of their ethnicity is an example of this.
What is racial profiling?
400
This is the process of becoming a citizen.
What is naturalization?
500
This is a formal charge by a grand jury.
What is an indictment?
500
The 10th amendment states that any rights not granted to the Federal Government are granted to _______________.
What are the states?
500
This amendment limited the President's terms to two total.
What is the 22nd amendment?
500
The practice of hiring women, or other traditional minorities, to jobs normally held by men, or the majority, is called this.
What is affirmative action?
500
This is the type of government the US has, where people elect people to represent them.
What is a Republic, or Representative Democracy?